Why are Tamil politicians always up in arms against any Indian language ? They seem to have no problems with English. If they want to celebrate their language let them go ahead but why must they always poke a spoke in other languages like Sanskrit or Hindi. They have no problem in holding World Tamil Conferences in other countries but in India they will oppose other languages. Height of hypocrisy .

Actualy they are not hypocrite. There is clash of two civilizatios and cultures. Sanskrit and other North Indian language pertain to Aryan race whereas Tamil and Tamil culture is Dravadian. Historically, Aryans invaded from abroad and dominated over other tribes and Dravadians. So they consider so much stress on Sanskrit as invasion of Aryan over Dravadian culture. Please note that the dominant partis in Tamilndu are Dravadian e.g. D.M.K. (Dravida Munetra Kashagam), AIADMK (All India anna Dravida Munetra Kashagam). The two alles of NDA in T.N. are also Dravadian.

Also we should note that Tamil is a living language ad spoken by millions. On the other hand, Sanskrit is a dead language like Latin, Hebrew, Greek. The underlying idea behind Sanskrit week is to promote Hindu scriptures and related litrature.

The Aryan coming to India is a myth propagated by Britishers when they came to India and saw a flourishing civilization here. They floated the myth that Aryans have come from Europe to India and the races here where Dravids whom they conquered. The idea was to tell Indians that in their civilization also Europeans had a hand. There is absolutely no proof of this propaganda myth.
Tamil has a culture like Malayalam or Konkani or Kashmiri or Sindhi etc have. Let them all celebrate but why oppose Hindi or sanskrit when they are a part and parcel of India.

Most of the Indian langauges are rooted and have their origins from Sanskrit. It used to be the lingua franca of India in yester years. But slowly Hindi and English took over, celebrating Sanskrit week will help revive this classical language. In fact irrespective of the board Sanskrit should be introduced in schools for the coming generation.

Broadly Sanskrit was overtaken by Persian or Farsi and Urdu and then by English. Only Tamilnadu has problems, rest all celebrate. TN does not like to do so and alienates its persons further.

@Vijay: //Broadly Sanskrit was overtaken by Persian or Farsi and Urdu and then by English.-- Thanks for correcting me here. :)
I really don't want to offend any Tamilian over here or generalize people based on Jayalalita's statement against celebrating Sanskrit Week, but this is also a fact that people from Tamil Nadu either speak in English even if it is incorrect or in their mother tongue. They are against Hindi, and now against Sanskrit too.

But the Tamilians outside TN speak lovely Hindi and local language. It is only the TN politicians who have to always take a stand against Hindi and now Sanskrit.

Tamilians are the most enterprising community ever ready to do hard work. You see in any state Tamilians are in high positions. They believe in dignity of job. They never hasitate to work in menial positions. I know many cases, Tamilians rising from the position of a hotel server to IAS officers. A well disciplined lot who love their language and culture to the core.

Why are Tamil politicians always up in arms against any Indian language ? They seem to have no problems with English. If they want to celebrate their language let them go ahead but why must they always poke a spoke in other languages like Sanskrit or Hindi. They have no problem in holding World Tamil Conferences in other countries but in India they will oppose other languages. Height of hypocrisy .

Actualy they are not hypocrite. There is clash of two civilizatios and cultures. Sanskrit and other North Indian language pertain to Aryan race whereas Tamil and Tamil culture is Dravadian. Historically, Aryans invaded from abroad and dominated over other tribes and Dravadians. So they consider so much stress on Sanskrit as invasion of Aryan over Dravadian culture. Please note that the dominant partis in Tamilndu are Dravadian e.g. D.M.K. (Dravida Munetra Kashagam), AIADMK (All India anna Dravida Munetra Kashagam). The two alles of NDA in T.N. are also Dravadian.

Also we should note that Tamil is a living language ad spoken by millions. On the other hand, Sanskrit is a dead language like Latin, Hebrew, Greek. The underlying idea behind Sanskrit week is to promote Hindu scriptures and related litrature.

The Aryan coming to India is a myth propagated by Britishers when they came to India and saw a flourishing civilization here. They floated the myth that Aryans have come from Europe to India and the races here where Dravids whom they conquered. The idea was to tell Indians that in their civilization also Europeans had a hand. There is absolutely no proof of this propaganda myth.
Tamil has a culture like Malayalam or Konkani or Kashmiri or Sindhi etc have. Let them all celebrate but why oppose Hindi or sanskrit when they are a part and parcel of India.

Most of the Indian langauges are rooted and have their origins from Sanskrit. It used to be the lingua franca of India in yester years. But slowly Hindi and English took over, celebrating Sanskrit week will help revive this classical language. In fact irrespective of the board Sanskrit should be introduced in schools for the coming generation.

Broadly Sanskrit was overtaken by Persian or Farsi and Urdu and then by English. Only Tamilnadu has problems, rest all celebrate. TN does not like to do so and alienates its persons further.

@Vijay: //Broadly Sanskrit was overtaken by Persian or Farsi and Urdu and then by English.-- Thanks for correcting me here. :)
I really don't want to offend any Tamilian over here or generalize people based on Jayalalita's statement against celebrating Sanskrit Week, but this is also a fact that people from Tamil Nadu either speak in English even if it is incorrect or in their mother tongue. They are against Hindi, and now against Sanskrit too.

But the Tamilians outside TN speak lovely Hindi and local language. It is only the TN politicians who have to always take a stand against Hindi and now Sanskrit.

Tamilians are the most enterprising community ever ready to do hard work. You see in any state Tamilians are in high positions. They believe in dignity of job. They never hasitate to work in menial positions. I know many cases, Tamilians rising from the position of a hotel server to IAS officers. A well disciplined lot who love their language and culture to the core.

Yup, brought up in a multi-cultural society and having worked in a place where people come from various places, I know Tamilians are one of the most intelligent race, always ahead of most of the people be it any dept. But yes, when it comes to their language, they are very stubborn. BTW we all love our language but are open to accepting other languages with an open heart..at least I am :)

A classical and ancient language like Sanskrit may not be in use. But they can never be dead too.

A classical and ancient language like Sanskrit may not be in use. But they can never be dead too.

What is not in use is 'dead'. A living language is one which is spoken by people. since Sanskrit is not spoken in any region of world, this is dead, whether you like it or not. Also there is nothing derogatory about a language being dead. There are may other dead languages in the world.

A classical and ancient language like Sanskrit may not be in use. But they can never be dead too.

What is not in use is 'dead'. A living language is one which is spoken by people. since Sanskrit is not spoken in any region of world, this is dead, whether you like it or not. Also there is nothing derogatory about a language being dead. There are may other dead languages in the world.

I'd rather prefer to say "Obsolete" for that which is not in use. Still universities like Venkateswara are conducting schools in Sanskrit. And the medium of studies is Sanskrit for studying Vedic Studies. Do you think a university conducts courses without students? And those classes are attended by scholars not only from India but also from many foreign countries.

A classical and ancient language like Sanskrit may not be in use. But they can never be dead too.

What is not in use is 'dead'. A living language is one which is spoken by people. since Sanskrit is not spoken in any region of world, this is dead, whether you like it or not. Also there is nothing derogatory about a language being dead. There are may other dead languages in the world.

I'd rather prefer to say "Obsolete" for that which is not in use. Still universities like Venkateswara are conducting schools in Sanskrit. And the medium of studies is Sanskrit for studying Vedic Studies. Do you think a university conducts courses without students? And those classes are attended by scholars not only from India but also from many foreign countries.

even a dead language or 'obsolete' if you like is studied. But the fact remains that sanskrit is of use only to scholars, Hindu clergy, astrolgers, Ayurveda medicine practioners or otherwise interested in ancient history. For general public, Sanskrit is practically of no use. If so, is there even a single Sanskrit language newspaper in India? Is Sanskrit medium of instruction in any university? Have you ever heard anyone talking in sanskrit? This will imply that Sanskrit is dead language or you may instead use the term 'pbsolete' if you so prefer. Any way, this means the same.

A classical and ancient language like Sanskrit may not be in use. But they can never be dead too.

What is not in use is 'dead'. A living language is one which is spoken by people. since Sanskrit is not spoken in any region of world, this is dead, whether you like it or not. Also there is nothing derogatory about a language being dead. There are may other dead languages in the world.

I'd rather prefer to say "Obsolete" for that which is not in use. Still universities like Venkateswara are conducting schools in Sanskrit. And the medium of studies is Sanskrit for studying Vedic Studies. Do you think a university conducts courses without students? And those classes are attended by scholars not only from India but also from many foreign countries.

even a dead language or 'obsolete' if you like is studied. But the fact remains that sanskrit is of use only to scholars, Hindu clergy, astrolgers, Ayurveda medicine practioners or otherwise interested in ancient history. For general public, Sanskrit is practically of no use. If so, is there even a single Sanskrit language newspaper in India? Is Sanskrit medium of instruction in any university? Have you ever heard anyone talking in sanskrit? This will imply that Sanskrit is dead language or you may instead use the term 'pbsolete' if you so prefer. Any way, this means the same.

A classical and ancient language like Sanskrit may not be in use. But they can never be dead too.

What is not in use is 'dead'. A living language is one which is spoken by people. since Sanskrit is not spoken in any region of world, this is dead, whether you like it or not. Also there is nothing derogatory about a language being dead. There are may other dead languages in the world.

I'd rather prefer to say "Obsolete" for that which is not in use. Still universities like Venkateswara are conducting schools in Sanskrit. And the medium of studies is Sanskrit for studying Vedic Studies. Do you think a university conducts courses without students? And those classes are attended by scholars not only from India but also from many foreign countries.

even a dead language or 'obsolete' if you like is studied. But the fact remains that sanskrit is of use only to scholars, Hindu clergy, astrolgers, Ayurveda medicine practioners or otherwise interested in ancient history. For general public, Sanskrit is practically of no use. If so, is there even a single Sanskrit language newspaper in India? Is Sanskrit medium of instruction in any university? Have you ever heard anyone talking in sanskrit? This will imply that Sanskrit is dead language or you may instead use the term 'pbsolete' if you so prefer. Any way, this means the same.

Dead means non existence. Disappearing from the scenario. Yes Sanskrit is studied mostly by scholars only to translate them in to other languages so that all can have the opportunity of knowing the ancient quintessence. Whats wrong with it ?